SOCIALISM in Classic Quotes

1  One clear illustration of this is the fact that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9